After-Affects After-Images: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum

by Griselda Pollock

Book Overview

Do artists travel away from or towards trauma? Is trauma encrypted or inscribed in art? Or can aesthetic practices (after-images) bring about transformation of trauma, personal trauma or historical traumas? Can they do this in a way that does not imply cure or resolution of the traces (after-affects) of trauma? How do artists themselves process these traces as participants in and sensors for our life-worlds and histories, and how does the viewer,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719087988
• ISBN13: 9780719087981
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"